What would you do if you won the lottery?

[Henarar]

lots of un-satisfied folk on here
just remember for you to be better off someone else has to be worse off

 

[exmoor dave]

Buy the jaffa cake factory and re-enstate the 12 cake packs!


I'd probably get a knighthood and be immortalised for ever as a national hero

 

[Still Farming]

Apparently the winning prizes per amount of numbers you got are going up soon.

Other thing is it is sometimes called "a poor persons" tax .

If Government asked for money off them as tax, there would be outcry BUT if you promise the chance of winning big prizes they "throw" money at them ?
Funny old World ant'it !

 

[ajd132]

Probably end up in a box to be honest

 

[kill]

I'd probably start by having a decent holiday which would definitely take in some of the places by helicopter the film "Point Break 2016" was filmed including the opening scenes in Oregon with the scramble bikes and the wing suit jump in Switzerland and those amazing waterfalls at Angel Falls in Venezuela and then do part of Route 66 by Harley Davidson and follow the world rally championship untill I am bored and while I am away if get a few neighbours places topped and tidied and maybe flatten anything unsightly

 

[unlacedgecko]

I'd probably start by having a decent holiday which would definitely take in some of the places by helicopter the film "Point Break 2016" was filmed including the opening scenes in Oregon with the scramble bikes and the wing suit jump in Switzerland and those amazing waterfalls at Angel Falls in Venezuela and then do part of Route 66 by Harley Davidson and follow the world rally championship untill I am bored and while I am away if get a few neighbours places topped and tidied and maybe flatten anything unsightly

Point Break 2016?! What heresy is this? They've remade Point Break? But why? And how?

If this new one doesn't have Keanu Reeves and Patrick Swayze in it then I'm just not interested...

I used to watch the original almost weekly as a child.

 

[unlacedgecko]

How can farming ever be truly profitable or show a sensible return on capital employed, so long as farmers' aspirations are limited to winning the lotto and farming for fun, until the money has all gone.
Government know they do not need to subsidise farming really, because we shall all keep doing it for fun, funded by lotto wins and rich aunts and development money, and then cut each other's throats until the last man is standing.

It's absolutely mental. I fully intend for my fantasy beef ranch to show a return on capital employed of at least 8%, otherwise I won't do it.

 

[Henarar]

It's absolutely mental. I fully intend for my fantasy beef ranch to show a return on capital employed of at least 8%, otherwise I won't do it.

Is that a fantasy 8%

 

[unlacedgecko]

Is that a fantasy 8%

If I ever achieve my ambition to own my grazing operation it will achieve a 5 year average 8% ROI.

Otherwise I'll sell it and do something else.

 

[Hooby Farmer]

I'd put hard fill around every gate entry!!!

 

[Henarar]

I'd put hard fill around every gate entry!!!

Just use rubble you can get that for nart ayway but you really need a slew to roll it in

 

[capfits]

Build a bond style lair on one of the hills here that can see over to Fife, Lothians, Strathmore and the Mearns, with an infinity pools and Helipad, serviced by an underground tunnel so as to not spoil the view.

 

[Tarw Coch]

lots of un-satisfied folk on here
just remember for you to be better off someone else has to be worse off

No one has to be worse off, parting with money to play the lottery is entirely voluntary.

 

[Bobthebuilder]

You must be planning on living fairly frugally as 1% of £2 million is only £20K

If everything else is paid for it’s a bad job if you can’t live off 20-30k/year

 

[Henarar]

No one has to be worse off, parting with money to play the lottery is entirely voluntary.

you miss understand
if you are better off there must be someone worse off or you wouldn't be better off

 

[Danllan]

lots of un-satisfied folk on here
just remember for you to be better off someone else has to be worse off

you miss understand
if you are better off there must be someone worse off or you wouldn't be better off

Does this work on national level too? I mean, if it does, surely such things as foreign 'aid' and the EU's 'solidarity' fund are nothing more than self-funded nails in our economic coffin, surely not...?

 

[Gerbert]

you miss understand
if you are better off there must be someone worse off or you wouldn't be better off

No, it is not a zero sum game.

 

[Hard Graft]

i would invest it were i would get a got return on investment not farming and keep it quite by getting a friend too do the deals through another company

 

[Dr. Alkathene]

you miss understand
if you are better off there must be someone worse off or you wouldn't be better off

Depends what you mean by better off. If I am happy it doesn’t mean someone else has to be sad to make me happy.

 

[pat kcotnit]

If you won a life changing amount of money on the lottery but only allowed yourself ONE extravagant or luxury purchase for the farm (remainder of winnings invested obviously!), what would it be?

For me it would either be:
1) a new 360 digger as I have never operated one that when slewing left/right you don't need to stop about a foot before you should need to or be careful that one of the tracks falls off.
Or (most likely)
2) a small self propelled road sweeper like the council use in pedestrianised areas or on pavements, leaving my shovel and brush for those small awkward corners I still wouldn't be able to reach.